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Woman’s Logic

I have a general rule when I’m driving that one does not argue or provoke the driver.

I came to this conclusion after picking up my little sister from horseback riding lessons one afternoon (yeh…we’re WASPy like that). She had had a not so lovely day, and I may have leaned on the horn after waiting for more than a half hour for her to emerge from the barn, frightening some poor pony.

She gets in the car and immediately begins to berate me for my behavior.

But wait, I’m the driver. I picked you up. I drove an hour out of my way for you. I waited. I don’t need to be yelled at right now.

So, I opened the car door and tossed her out into a nearby cornfield, where she proceeded to have to wait for my terribly-displeased mother to come and fetch her.

My car = my rules.

Now, this poster has very little to do with that anecdote; however, the expression on the woman’s face is pretty spot on for that of my little sister on that afternoon, as is the image of her sitting alone in a field in the days before cell phones. Ah, to abandon young women in the wilderness — these are the things I live for.

In actuality, this is a ginormous poster for an Italian film called Panne d’Auto. I don’t know why the transliteration is ‘Woman’s Logic,’ but I’m sure those misogynistic turn-of-the-century Italians could explain it to me.

The story basically revolves around two male rivals fighting over the love of that cheesed-off looking lady. They both sign up to compete in some sort of auto race, but one of them chickens out and takes her out for a picnic instead.